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Germany's Foreign Ministry has advised lawmakers with a Turkish background to avoid going to Turkey in the near future, DW reports. Politicians of Turkish origin are facing a backlash over a Bundestag vote on the Armenian Genocide.

An internal assessment from the German Foreign Office said the safety of parliamentarians traveling to Turkey could not be guaranteed, news magazine "Der Spiegel" reported on Saturday.

To remind the German Bundestag approved a resolution recognizing the Armenian genocide amid a Turkey’s fury. The vote heightened German-Turkish tensions. Turkey recalled its ambassador, while its president threatened further action.
Meanwhile, media reported that number of Bundestag members received threats over the vote on the Genocide recognition. Green Party co-leader Cem Özdemir, who spearheaded the vote, has reported receiving dozens of death threats from Turkish nationalists. He is under police protection and has boosted security around his Berlin home.

"Der Spiegel" said a number of Bundestag officials with Turkish heritage had canceled business trips to Ankara and summer vacation plans on the Bosphorus.